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Considering the last decade, adoption of mobile devices has increased rapidly. There is hardly any industry not leveraging the benefits offered by mobile devices. Organizations are also considering mobile devices in the workplace to provide flexibility and convenience to employees in terms of learning and education.

As learning on mobile devices offers employees easy access to the training content, they tend to face lot of challenges. Considering the past scenario, content was mainly viewed on desktop and that is no longer the case. Currently, training content is viewed on multiple devices like tablet, Kindle, smartphones etc as it provides ease of use and accessibility.

However to eliminate the challenges, it is vital to make your learning content responsive. In other words, training content must be flexibly designed in order to adjust automatically according to the screen size of mobile devices. Furthermore, responsive design facilitates the organizations with BYOD policy to save money by encouraging the training participation.

Additionally, with responsive content, learners are able to focus on the content rather than navigating other apps and features. Responsive design provides the learner with an ability to start their training on a particular device and transition it to some other device in order to finish it.

So, if you are still not certain about considering responsive design for your learning content, then you need to check this out. Every employee in an organization has one or the other mobile devices. However, if they are compelled to use the office desktop for training they may feel outmoded and this might eventually result in poor training participation. In addition, your training objectives might remain incomplete.

You can leverage a lot of benefits if you consider designing your training content in responsive way. Though there might be some additional efforts required, it is worth giving a shot. However, consulting a third party partner can be favorable who can guide you to incorporate your courses in responsive design.

Mobile learning is still a fresh concept to lot of people and hence they are bit skeptical about the benefits offered by it. The misconceptions are hampering mobile learning advancement, especially in the workplaceby blocking its adoption.

Augmented reality, known as AR is one of the hot topics in software development paradigm. So what is augmented reality? AR is a concept which offers live view of existing real world environment with computer generated inputs which includes sound, graphics, text and video. However,apart from software ecosystem, AR is being widely used in mobile learning to educate users, owing to the rise of mobile devices.

Gone are the days when workers functioned while sitting at the office desk. Nowadays, the scenario is totally contrasting because of the proliferation of mobile devices. Earlier it was expected to travel to office, work for hours and drive back home. However, the boost in mobile technology enabled the workforces to comfortably work, attend meetings and collaborate with peers from any location. Also, numerous apps available in the market have significantly contributed towards collaboration and engagement of the workforces within an enterprise. As a result, there are over millions of mobile workers across the globe and the number will always keep increasing.

The transformation in the paradigm of learning methodologies has been intriguing. It started with blackboard learning moving to e-learning and then to m-learning. Absolutely, this revolution being quite interesting resulted into the transformation of the enterprises in terms of communication and learning approaches.

M-learning has been positively adapted by the business world. It’s not only limited to mobile phones but tablets, iPhones, iPads and laptops are too considered as major contributors in mobile learning. At a workplace, it provides a great platform for collaborative learning by curbing all the geographical limitations.

In my last two posts, I have shown skepticism towards the increasing use of mobile devices/ smartphones as computing devices. I have also highlighted the growing trend among developers to utilize this computing power to overwhelm the basic functionality of a mobile device i.e communications. In this post, I would be sharing reasons for being a skeptic about the increasing computing power in smartphones. But first, let’s have a look at some features that are hardware-intensive and communications-based. This is just a short list for reference and will help you understand whether your app is hardware-intensive or communications-based.

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